Workday Finance Specialist - London
Posted 1 week ago by Adecco
£800 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
City of London, UK
Summary: The Workday Financial Specialist role involves collaborating with various stakeholders to enhance financial systems, particularly Workday Financials. The position requires translating business needs into actionable product backlog items and managing the product roadmap. The specialist will also focus on improving system engagement and identifying automation opportunities within business processes. This is a hybrid role based in London, with an emphasis on delivering projects efficiently and effectively.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborating with finance SMEs, HR, operations, and IT stakeholders to understand needs and challenges
- Translating business requirements into prioritised product backlog items
- Defining user stories, testing, acceptance criteria, and product specifications with the development team
- Managing a clear and up-to-date product backlog
- Owning the long-term product roadmap and strategic direction
- Improving Workday Financials and other systems through user research and data analysis
- Own and deliver system engagement plan, ensuring training materials in respect of financial systems are developed and kept up to date and delivering training to end users.
- Identifying automation opportunities in current business processes
- Monitoring and reporting on process efficiency and data quality
- Championing improvements to self-serve reporting and dashboarding
- Fostering a collaborative and agile product team environment
- Implementing small change and records management
Key Skills:
- Extensive experience as a super user in Workday Financials, with exposure to other finance platforms is necessary
- Strong understanding of financial systems and processes.
- Proven track record of delivering projects on time and within budget.
- Excellent interpersonal skills for engaging with both technical and non-technical individuals.
- Strategic thinker with a big picture perspective for systems and processes
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills, with experience in structuring and manipulating large datasets
- Good understanding of the wider market, latest trends and challenges
Salary (Rate): £800 daily
City: London
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Workday Financial Specialist
Rate - £800 (A day)
Duration - 12 Months (Initially)
Location - London (Hybrid)
IR35 - Inside (Must use an umbrella company)
Key responsibilities
- Collaborating with finance SMEs, HR, operations, and IT stakeholders to understand needs and challenges
- Translating business requirements into prioritised product backlog items
- Defining user stories, testing, acceptance criteria, and product specifications with the development team
- Managing a clear and up-to-date product backlog
- Owning the long-term product roadmap and strategic direction
- Improving Workday Financials and other systems through user research and data analysis
- Own and deliver system engagement plan, ensuring training materials in respect of financial systems are developed and kept up to date and delivering training to end users.
- Identifying automation opportunities in current business processes
- Monitoring and reporting on process efficiency and data quality
- Championing improvements to self-serve reporting and dashboarding
- Fostering a collaborative and agile product team environment
- Implementing small change and records management
To be considered for this role, you'll need to show us that you've got the skills and capabilities. You'll have to meet the following minimum criteria:
Minimum Criteria
- Extensive experience as a super user in Workday Financials, with exposure to other finance platforms is necessary
- Strong understanding of financial systems and processes.
- Proven track record of delivering projects on time and within budget.
- Excellent interpersonal skills for engaging with both technical and non-technical individuals.
Desirable Criteria
We would also like you to have the following skills:
- Strategic thinker with a big picture perspective for systems and processes
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills, with experience in structuring and manipulating large datasets
- Good understanding of the wider market, latest trends and challenges